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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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